Child Care Licensing Study, 2007 [United States] (ICPSR 25601)

Citation

National Association for Regulatory Administration, and United States Department of Health and Human Services. Administration for Children and Families. National Child Care Information and Technical Assistance Center. Child Care Licensing Study, 2007 [United States]. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-12-03. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR25601.v1

Principal Investigator(s):
National Association for Regulatory Administration;
United States Department of Health and Human Services. Administration for Children and Families. National Child Care Information and Technical Assistance Center

Summary

The purpose of the 2007 Child Care Licensing Study is to report four aspects of child care licensing from 2007 for all 50 states and the District of Columbia: (1) state child care licensing programs and policies, (2) child care center licensing regulations, (3) small family child care home licensing regulations, and (4) large/group family child care home licensing regulations.

To collect information on states' licensing policies, including staffing, monitoring, and enforcement of licensing regulations, the National Association for Regulatory Administration (NARA) disseminated the 2007 NARA Child Care Licensing Program Survey to all state child care licensing agencies in July 2007. Responses were received from all states. The survey focused on the processes and policies in each state related to staffing for the licensing program, monitoring facilities, and enforcement of licensing regulations. The data cover the following topical areas:

Number of licensed facilities

Complaint investigations

Licensing staff

Enforcement actions

Types of inspections

Licensing information on the Internet

Frequency of inspections

Licensing fees

Frequency of licensing

Licensing staff requirements

Inspections and monitoring and

Licensing's role in quality initiatives

The child care center licensing regulations used for this study are those that were posted on the National Resources Center for Health and Safety in Child Care (NRC) Web site between January 1, 2006, and December 31, 2007. The data covers the following areas:

Licensing regulations

Additional staff training requirements

Definition of licensed child care centers

Child-staff ratios and group size

Staff roles and age requirements

Supervision of children

Staff qualifications and ongoing training requirements

Care of children

Facility requirements and

Staff hiring requirements

The same Web site was used to collect licensing regulations covering the above listed topics for small family child care homes and large/group family child care homes. More information on the study is located at the National Association for Regulatory Administration Web site.

Citation

National Association for Regulatory Administration, and United States Department of Health and Human Services. Administration for Children and Families. National Child Care Information and Technical Assistance Center. Child Care Licensing Study, 2007 [United States]. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-12-03. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR25601.v1

Unit(s) of Observation

Data Type(s)

Mode of Data Collection

Response Rates

Original Release Date

2009-12-03

Version Date

2009-12-03

Version History

2009-12-03 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Performed consistency checks.

Created variable labels and/or value labels.

Standardized missing values.

Notes

The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.